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Rename repository to astropy.org? #134

Closed astrofrog closed 8 years ago

astrofrog commented 8 years ago

We should either change the repo name to astropy.github.io or astropy.org - any objections? (I prefer the latter)

eteq commented 8 years ago

@astrofrog - doesn't that break everything? I think the repository name has to be <something>.github.com to for with Github pages? (because otherwise the URL is astropy.github.io/astropy.org or something like that)

eteq commented 8 years ago

I'm getting this from the first two steps of https://pages.github.com/, particularly:

If the first part of the repository doesn’t exactly match your username, it won’t work, so make sure to get it right.

which implies it has to be that name

astrofrog commented 8 years ago

@eteq - ah of course, sorry - wasn't thinking straight. Still worth changing to .io instead of .com?

taldcroft commented 8 years ago

I am Ok with changing to .io.

eteq commented 8 years ago

I'm OK in principal with changing it to .io, but I'm worried there might be side-effects? We'll have to update the DNS but that's fairly transient... but are there search engine problems or links to this repo in documentation floating around that we might forget to update?

(Maybe not - I'm genuinely asking, but it never occurred to me that this repo might change names so I may be guilty of embedding it in some hard-to-change place...)

taldcroft commented 8 years ago

I thought that github automatically does the redirect. I can type astropy.github.io and astropy.github.com and they both redirect to astropy.org (as shown in the browser URL window). Likewise python4astronomers.github.com redirects to .io.

But maybe I'm missing some pesky details.

eteq commented 8 years ago

Ah, I didn't realize that - that fixes the DNS concern, but for the documentation I'm more concerned about the link to the repo: https://github.com/astropy/astropy.github.com. For example, there's a link on http://www.astropy.org/affiliated/ that points there which will break if we rename it. Obviously we can fix that one but I'm worried that there are others more deeply buried (forum posts, astropy-dev, etc).

But maybe we can make https://github.com/astropy/astropy.github.com redirect to https://github.com/astropy/astropy.github.io ? If so, all my concerns are eliminated...

astrofrog commented 8 years ago

Normally GitHub auto-redirects when repositories are renamed. But to be honest I don't feel strongly about this, and we could just close this. I'm easy going :)

eteq commented 8 years ago

To be clear, I do think this is a good idea on balance, I'm just afraid it will break something...

taldcroft commented 8 years ago

At the end I would vote to just close this. Benefit vs. risk doesn't seem high enough.